finagle your way into reading poems
Consider this your invitation to join me and a bunch of other people at the Writers House this Thursday for the opening of a new art show, TAPEWORM. The show, curated by Kaegan Sparks, is a collaboration of works generated from The Tapeworm Foundry by Darren Wershler-Henry.
I have two pieces in the show: the first is a sound piece that just so happens to be a close cousin of my Place to Stand project. I recorded random phone calls that I made. On each call, I tried to convince anyone who answered to let me read them a poem. I think it was a successful project, although not if you're judging it on how many poems I was able to read. You can listen to a sample track here:
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In addition, I collaborated on a physical piece with Jamie-Lee Josselyn. If the poetry calls are a close cousin of A Place to Stand, I guess our collaboration is a distant cousin of Gasp. Perhaps.
Regardless, I hope you'll come to the opening if you are in the area. The program begins at 7 pm. If you're not in the area, you can actually watch the program online. Full details for local and web visitors below the jump!
KWH Art, the English
Department, & the Creative Writing Program
present
an opening for TAPEWORM
a collaborative exhibition based on Darren Wershler-Henry's
"The Tapeworm Foundry (andor the dangerous prevalence of imagination)"
Thursday, 11/20 at 7PM
the Writers House | 3805 Locust Walk
No registration required - free & open to the public
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Tapeworm is a collaboration of art projects radiating from a writing piece by Canadian artist Darren Wershler-Henry, "The Tapeworm Foundry (andor the dangerous prevalence of imagination)."/ /The text is available on UbuWeb: http://www.ubu.com/ubu/wershler_tapeworm.html. The Tapeworm Foundry is an intriguing instance of conceptual writing, faithfully formulaic but also unusually compelling in its fruition: a single rambling, unpunctuated sequence of possible projects, ranging from quirky to absurd to highly ambiguous and all largely allusive of the twentieth century avant-garde. The potential 'instructions' that comprise Tapeworm, linked by the pulsating conjunction 'andor', are themselves mini-premises for a thousand other projects, making the 50-page list the ultimate conceptual catalyst.
This exhibition challenges a group of young contemporary artists and writers at Penn to realize some of Wershler-Henry's hypothetical instructions. The Penn students and graduates participating in the exhibition include: Grace Ambrose, Joyce Lee, Ned Eisenberg, Vladimir Zykov, Kimberly Eisler, Artie Vierkant, John Carroll, Jamie-Lee Josselyn, Arielle Brousse, Manya Scheps, Brooke Palmieri, Nick Salvatore, Robin McDowell, Sofie Hodara, Cecilia Corrigan, and Thomson Guster, with assistance from James La Marre and Trisha Low. Curated by Kaegan Sparks. There will be a limited quantity of complimentary exhibition catalogues available at the opening. Please email kwhart@writing.upenn.edu
This event will be webcast live: the Kelly Writers House LIVE WEBCAST allows you to join us at KWH as a virtual participant. Stop by online for a poetry reading or a discussion with a major journalist, regardless of whether you live in Philadelphia or in London. You can tune into each live webcast by following the instructions on the KWH-TV page: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/webcasts/instructions.html.
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